Tunes Quotations | Page 3

All I ever wanted to do was make a record. Here's what you do: you pick up your guitar, you rip a few people's tunes off, you swap them round a bit, get your brother in the band, punch his head in every now and again, and it sells. I'm a lucky bastard. I'm probably the single most lucky man in the world -- apart from our Liam.

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

The person who is in tune with the Universe becomes like a radio receiver, through which the voice of the Universe is transmitted.

The group, composed of a trombone, French horn, tuba and two trumpets, performs pieces from the classics to show tunes to Dixieland to original compositions.

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

And all I was doing was playing all those funky blues tunes and rock and roll songs I'd played with my band back in Baton Rouge in the '50s.

It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.

Everyone can lock into the rhythm on a tune. It's organic in nature. It connects the band as a whole and connects the band to the audience.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music..

The music of a marathon is a powerful strain, one of those tunes of glory. It asks us to forsake pleasures, to discipline the body, to find courage, to renew faith and to become one's own person, utterly and completely.

Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.

There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.

I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.

I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

To execute a vision, good or bad, you've got to tune out the noise.

Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune.

Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

Not for me. If I want to tune everybody out, I just take off my glasses and enjoy the haze.

Tune into my new lifetime movie. ’Dislocated shoulder’ airing right now,

If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.

The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.

There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.

I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.

Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

When I joined the band I didn't know any of the tunes, and when I left the band I didn't know any of the tunes!

The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

My mother played a little bit of the old time clawhammer. She tuned the banjo up and picked one tune for me, and it just become natural to me. When she picked it, I just started and picked it, too.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles.

A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into it.

It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers

I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.

Consciously or subconsciously, we become slaves to debt and social obligation. As a result, we end up more committed to the minutia and less in tune with the bigger picture: our deepest sense of purpose.

Once we tune in to what we feel in our heart and Spirit, our intuition kicks into gear and starts to communicate with us in so many delightful ways.

Take a few moments every day to sit in silence and turn your full awareness inward to connect with your Spirit. These moments of silence can occur anytime and anyplace. The more you learn to tune in wherever you are, the easier it will become.

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.

Among whom the gods bless, high on the list are the music people, who tune into celestial vibe-brations and give mortals a taste of immortal sensations.

For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

Some people can carry a tune, but they seem to stagger under the load.

There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it's the hot thing to do.

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.

When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

I rode an elevator with a guy who was whistling the tune of 'this is the song that never ends'. Putting that on me? Come on dude..

The grand tune is the only thing in music that the great public really understands.

Tune in, turn on, and drop out.

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

Express the psychedelic with the cybernetic. Turn on, tune in and boot up.

I'm someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.

Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.

I'm very sensitive. It's always been something I'm very in tune with. I am very emotional. Sometimes to the point of where I just want to hide away, because I can't get a handle on myself.

Feel exhilarated by the whole process .. high, happy, in tune.

Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.

I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.

To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.

It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.

The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune.

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

What's the newest grief? Each minute tunes a new one.

My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune.

The purpose of music is to elevate the spirit and inspire. Not to help push some product down your throat. It puts you in tune with your own existence. Sometimes you really don't know how you feel, but really good music can define how you feel... someone who's telling me where he's been that I haven't and what it's like there - somebody whose life I can feel...

Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything else

The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

Sorry for the tune up between time, but what the hell, cowboys are the only ones who stay in tune, anyway...

There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune.

Don’t spend most of your time on the voices that don’t count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the universe. He said

After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.

We in the Congress have a moral and constitutional obligation to protect the value of the dollar and to understand why it is so important to the economy that a central bank not be given the unbelievable power of inflating a currency at will and pretending that it knows how to fine-tune an economy through this counterfeit system of money.

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or be bailed out, Congressman Frank changed his tune completely.

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.

There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.